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Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York), is a musician, vocalist, and artist. She plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten with Julie Cafritz (of Pussy Galore), and she has collaborated with many musicians such as Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Alan Licht, and Chris Corsano.
Early YearsThe daughter of a seamstress, Gordon grew up in LA and fell in love with art before attending UCLA's art school. After graduating she moved to New York and joined the short lived band CKM with Christine Hahn and Miranda Stanton. Through Stanton, Gordon met her future bandmates Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. The three, along with a stream of drummers, formed Sonic Youth in 1981, originally called "The Arcadians". In 1984, she married fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, and gave birth to their daughter, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore in 1994.
Gordon, Moore, and Coco currently reside in Northampton, Massachusetts. They are frequently sighted in the area, and played a benefit concert with Cat Power for the Greenfield Center School in 2005. Art WorldGordon is also a well-established visual artist and curator. Her work has been widely exhibited across the U.S., Japan and Europe. She graduated form the Otis College of Art & Design in LA. In the early 1980s, Gordon wrote for Artforum and worked for several Soho art galleries. She curated an exhibition at White Columns gallery in 1982 in which Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler were among the participants. Dan Graham invited her to join in a performance of an all-female rock band, which marked the start of her first band CKM. In 1996 Gordon was involved in an exhibition entitled Baby Generation at Parco gallery in Tokyo. Her exhibition titled Kim's Bedroom was shown at MU in the Netherlands and included drawing and paintings along with live music and special guests. This resulted in a limited-edition book and CD published by Purple Books. In 2003, Gordon was featured in the Gothenburg Biennale, and exhibited Club In The Shadow, a collaboration with artist Jutta Koether at Kenny Schachter's Contemporary Gallery in NYC. In 2005 she curated events for Her Noise in London and did another collaboration with Koether.
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